On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:36:55PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > And what version is used is trivial to check. Oh, wait -- in this case not > > that trivial, when using the Google test "kilobyte" is so much over the cap > > that you need tricks like searching for "kibibite foo" and "kilobyte foo", > > using several words to avoid bias caused by a certain term. > > > > The results I got are: "kibibite" has below 0.3% use of "kilobyte". > > With such a crushing defeat, I doubt the whole "kibibyte" crap has much of > > a leg to stand on, regardless whether a self-imposed "Academie Anglaise" > > says. > > I get 59 500 hits for "kibibyte" and 1.5 million hits for "kilobyte". That's > about 4%, not 0.3%. In fact, it's sufficiently widespread to earn a place in > dictionaries, IMHO.
That's the cap I mentioned earlier -- most searches are halted soon after roughly 1M hits. To have a clue about the real value you need to search for phrases which contain the words you want to compare. Repeat this a few times to eliminate the risk of using a helper word used more by those who have a stronger preference for one of the variants. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]